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What lives in an Eastern or Mid-western city, ranges in age from 21 to 40, earns about $7,500 a year and is thirstier than a Bavarian immigrant? Answer: the typical U.S. beer drinker. Beer production in the U.S. last year reached 98.5 million barrels, or 27 gallons for every adult. No less than 75% of this sea of suds, however, was downed by those 21-to-40 urbanites, who constitute only 20% of the population. Since the group's size is due to increase 11% by 1970 and another 37% by 1980, even higher beer sales foam...
During the 13 hours of the festival, Robert Jeffrey's lithe young dancers performed on the premises, and Mr. Edward K. Ellington (as Duke's invitation read) led his 15-piece band. Catherine Drinker Bowen read a passage from Yankee from Olympus, her memorable biography of Mr. Justice Holmes. It had to do with the thrills felt by Holmes's wife Fanny upon her arrival in Washington and her first dinner at the White House, where she was enthusiastically greeted by President Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Bowen had had some qualms about picking that particular passage: it might...
Mask for Fatigue. It is almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion of liquor today, he complains, because too many people equate all drinking with drunkenness and all drunkenness with alcoholism. Some so-called experts say there is only a hairline between the social or moderate drinker and the alcoholic. "Don't believe it," Chafetz snaps. "A grand canyon separates them." No more than 5% of Americans are alcoholics or problem drinkers destined to become alcoholics, Chafetz believes. Accordingly, Chafetz devotes 95% of his book to the beneficial uses of liquor...
...Chafetz' book will be misrepresented and abused. But he puts himself squarely on record: "The person who drinks to get drunk is a fool and probably does not enjoy liquor anyway. He likely drinks for oblivion, with alcohol only the means to attain it." The civilized drinker stops far short of drunken oblivion...
...news out of Scotland last week was enough to give any Rob Roy drinker pause. A crisis is bubbling in the Scotch industry, whose exports earned Britain more than $258 million in muchneeded dollars and other foreign exchange last year. The crisis is not due to a shortage of whisky but of barrels...